One for hard-core gore-hounds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Frodo Baggins as a psycho-killer? Why not?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 11, 2013

Beyond the killings, there isn't much mystery to Wood's Frank. He has Norman Bates Syndrome. The end.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2013

The sadistic proceedings here are pointless, and not very scary.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 5, 2013

Perhaps the mannequin metaphor is best: though it's dressed to the nines, Maniac is ultimately just a piece of plastic

| Jun 28, 2013

It's not clear what exactly merited an updating of William Lustig's 1980 "Maniac" - a cheapo urban grimeball about a serial killer - but like a rash's unwelcome return, we got it anyway.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 27, 2013

It's a bit like watching an amputee play hopscotch: there's no way that it's polite to stare for this long, but you just have to see if this guy's gonna make it to the end.

| Jun 21, 2013

The film is exactly what it intends to be: the purest exploitational trash.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2013

By not centering on the victims, Mr. Khalfoun nearly makes the film about pitying the panic-prone killer; the camerawork lacks the ominous, confident glide of much Steadicam horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 20, 2013

A remake that, rather than trying to fix the deep flaws of its source, just covers them in a shinier coat of paint.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 20, 2013

Ever wonder what Frodo Baggins would be like as a serial killer?

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 20, 2013

I would never argue that a movie should be banned or censored, but I firmly believe we should take directors like Khalfoun aside and tell him he's a hack, a phony and should be ashamed of himself.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Jun 20, 2013

If it's possible to be both impressed and appalled by a movie's pull-no-punches savagery, Maniac earns that dubious distinction.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 20, 2013

Eventually it collapses in a gore fest of nauseating brutality that makes you wonder why they bothered at all.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 19, 2013

The genre is adolescent as hell, reckless and pre-empathetic, picking on girls just to see what their reactions might be.

| Jun 18, 2013

Each killing is suffused with a strangely surreal empathy for both murderer and victim that recalls Jonathan Demme's genre-redefining The Silence of the Lambs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2013

A shocker of a remake, equal parts stylish and scuzzy.

| Jun 18, 2013

Its audio-visual overload testifies to a group of filmmakers' belief that some films are made to be remade.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2013

This story was first told, much better, in 1980 - a real B-movie stunner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2013

I found it intestine-squishingly horrible, but also dreary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2013